I do not guarantee but I think these pieces which is by the Lido belonged to one of the largest factories that Madeira had in transforming sugarcane into sugar Torreão factory which now no longer exists.

In its place made the Garden of Santa Luzia.

Who does not know the story hardly knows that represented. Heritage was the chimney and a few pieces like this almost hidden.

A different embodiment of the statue of the "O Semeador" ("The Sower") that since December 2008 is next to City Hall.
The statue was designed by the Madeiran Francisco Franco (1885-1955) and date from 1923, when the sculptor was living in Paris.
The sculpture was exposed publicly in Funchal, for the first time, the December 7, 1936 when it is placed on the Tenerife Square.
Thirty years later was transferred to the main entrance of the former Junta Geral of Funchal, at Av. Zarco, now the Regional Government.
In 1989 was installed on a wide pedestal in Santa Catarina Park where he remained until mid-2007.

I do not know the history of this Puch motorcycle I found one day in the parking area for motorcycles in the Praça do Município. But woke me up by its lines that give it a great personality.
Puch is a manufacturing company located in Graz, Austria.
The company was founded in 1889 by the industrialist Johann Puch and produced automobiles, bicycles, mopeds, and motorcycles.

In most cases do not look at the ground we walk on every day. So, details like this can go unnoticed. As sometimes eye for precisely ground in search of details seen this with the church of St. Peter in Funchal.
It is curious to see this green living nature within a cap of water services.

I did this recently in photography tower facing south Sacred Art Museum. Shows a tile panel Historian blue and white, a Lisbon workshop, the tower Avista Navios the Sacred Art Museum, a little-known space, even for those who visit the museum.

Shows the sequence of the three theological virtues, Faith, Hope and Charity, with framing plant motifs and concheados, datable to the end of the second quarter of the eighteenth century.

This was the latest European Golden Shoe won by the Portuguese footballer, Cristiano Ronaldo, who was born in Funchal, Madeira. It's exhibited in the Museum CR7 that brings together in Madeira the entire collection of awards, distinctions and many other things related to the Real Madrid player and selection of Portugal.

This morning there was a solar eclipse.
In Funchal was visible for a few moments, one morning with many clouds. I have not had opportunity to capture the eclipse because I had other things to do but always got this photo during the period when it was happening and to leave the city with a dark and dimmed light.
Here, the sun's rays that the moon was not covering tear through the clouds.

This is a low relief unveiled these days in Funchal.
It is a tribute to Bernard Harvey Foster who brought to Madeira in 1904 the first car.
The idea of this tribute was it's for the economist Eduardo Jesus who just released a book about that historic moment.

My photos are increasingly the result of a chance.
When I leave home in order to shoot I back with one or two not to come with nothing.
All this to say that my photography is evident the moment.
This photo was one of those times.

On Sunday morning I went to buy bread and this framework called me like a magnet. I tried the best framework between the real and the reflected volved in the side of the Dolce Vita shopping center and click

The Christian Radich was in Madeira recently.
This is a sailboat that usually make stops regularly at the port of Funchal. She is a Norwegian full-rigged ship. The vessel was built in Norway, and was delivered on 17 June 1937. The owner was The Christian Radich Sail Training Foundation established by a grant from an officer of that name. The crew is 18 altogether. It can accommodate 88 passengers.
The vessel was built for training sailors for the Norwegian merchant navy, and did so for many years. From 1999 and on, the ship has been on the charter market as well as sailing with paying trainees to foreign ports on summer trips, and large sail events in various European ports.

I visited the Museum CR7 one of these days. It was the second time I was there.
This was one of many photos I did.
I tried frame the picture of Cristiano Ronaldo with the third FIFA ballon d'Or he won.
I tried to fit the golden ball on his foot and I think I succeeded.

This is the statue soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo, considered the best in the world.
Real Madrid's Portuguese athlete and has the particularity of being born precisely in the city of Funchal.
I might add that the player has also Madeira CR7 Museum where all the awards and accolades it has won during his career, which features three gold balls.

The Blandy's Wine Lodge are the best known on the island of Madeira.
His fame and quality that comes from far away, as well as the central location in the city of Funchal make this secular area as an essential place to visit.

The sailing boats with french flag with three masts "Le Bel Espoir II" (right, with black hull) and "Le Rara-Avis" of Belespoir, anchored in the Funchal bay some weeks ago.
The first, in addition to the nine crew members can receive up to 27 students.
In turn, the "Le Rara-Avis" (light blue hull) has the capacity to receive students in a wheelchair.
As the dominant note, aboard these ships the students have several classes as carpentry, mechanics, navigation, cooking and welder.

What you see in the foreground is an artificial beach created last year in the Funchal coastline. It is pebble, like there is usually on the beaches of Madeira, but this is man-made. In the background, in yellow tones we see the four stars Hotel Porto Santa Madeira and the Fort São Tiago, where there is a restaurant O Forte and the Museum of Contemporary Art.

This is the statue of Max, one of the leading Madeiran artists of all time who lived in Lisbon and took the name of Madeira over the world.
He was born in 1918 and died in 1980.
This is is located in the old town of Funchal, next to the hotel Porto Santa Maria.